Virtual Eye creator criticises ICC’s DRS usage

Ian Taylor, the creator of Virtual Eye, has criticised the ICC for their handling of the Decision Review System (DRS), saying the technology should only be used to overturn ‘howlers’. The DRS was called upon three times on the first day of the Gabba Test between Australia and South Africa, being used for the first time under a recently amended protocol.
Australia challenged the umpire’s decision on all three occasions, and were successful in overturning an lbw appeal against Graeme Smith that umpire Billy Bowden had deemed not out. But the technology came under the scanner again when a…